Strategic, commercial, and carbon monetization support for fast-growing cleantech startups, and general climate strategy advisory services
Fractional strategic support to the management teams of fast-growing clean technology start-ups and internal corporate climate teams. Services include:
Supporting companies in reducing emissions from hard-to-abate applications across industrial sectors including oil and gas, chemicals, pulp and paper, manufacturing, food and beverage, and cement.
Reducing compliance costs for large emitters while maximizing value from emission reduction projects (carbon offsets, cap and trade, low carbon fuel standards, GHG and climate risk reporting)
Evaluating broad range of decarbonization solutions including waste heat recovery, renewable power, hydrogen, biomass energy, zero emission vehicles, and carbon utilization
Ahsan is a carbon and energy decarbonization specialist with more than 8 years of experience across a broad range of climate-related issues including renewable energy (hydrogen, waste-to-energy, biofuels, biogas, CCUS), carbon offsets, emissions reporting including life cycle analysis (LCA), ESG disclosure, climate finance, and corporate net zero strategies. Leveraging his technical and commercial acumen, and knowledge of environmental regulations, Ahsan brings a holistic perspective to climate projects.
Ahsan spent the first half of his career advising clients across the public and private sectors on their emissions strategies as a consultant at Radicle-BMO, ERM, SYSTEMIQ and BCG, and the later half developing large-scale decarbonization projects with Protium, StormFisher, Hydra and Valent. He was most recently with ATCO’s Clean Energies Team as a Senior Strategy Advisor, where he led a number of techno-economic studies on the export markets for renewable ammonia, hydrogen's role as a transport fuel, and pathways to reduce the carbon intensity of large-scale hydrogen production.
Prior to that, Ahsan provided fractional commercial and strategy support to various clean technology startups and renewable fuel project developers between Canada, US, UK and Sweden, helping with financial modelling, grant writing, business development, and carbon monetization. Ahsan is currently focused on originating and developing low carbon cement projects with Carbon Upcycling.
Ahsan has a BA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, a BSc Environmental Science from Western University and a MSc from the London School of Economics where he was a Chevening Scholar.
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